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American Horizonsis the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context. The seven-author team uses the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework. This unique approach provides a fully integrated global perspective that seamlessly contextualizes American events within the wider world. The authors, all acclaimed scholars in their specialties, use their individual strengths to provide students with a balanced and inclusive account of U.S. history. Presented in two volumes for maximum flexibility,American Horizonsillustrates the relevence of U.S. history to American students by centering on the matrix of issues that dominate their lives. These touchstone themes include population movements and growth, the evolving definition of citizenship, cultural change and continuity, people's relationship to and impact upon the environment, political and ideological contests and their consequences, and Americans' five centuries of engagement with regional, national, and global institutions, forces, and events. In addition, this beautifully designed, full-color book features hundreds of photos and images and more than one hundred maps. American Horizonscontains ample pedagogy, including: *America in the World, visual guides to the key interactions between America and the world *Global Passages, which feature unique stories connecting America to the world *Visual Reviewsproviding post-reading summaries to help students to connect key themes or events within a chapter *Maps and Infographicsthat explore essential themes in new ways

Clearing the Land and Cleansing the Wilderness Indian Conflict and Resistance Education for AssimilationThe Destruction of the BuffaloThe Dawes Act and Survival Tourism, Parks, and Forests

Chapter 17: A New Industrial and Labor Order, 1877-1900

Global Webs of Industrial CapitalismThe New Industrial OrderU.S. Industrial Growth in Global ContextCombinations and Concentrations of WealthMarkets and Consumerism

Work and the WorkplaceGlobal MigrationsBlue Collar and White Collar WorkersRegimentation and Scientific ManagementWorking Conditions and WagesEconomic Convulsions and Hard TimesWomen and Children in the Workplace

A National CulturePopular Entertainment: Movies, Sports, and CelebrityThe New SkepticismThe New Woman of the 1920sReligion and SocietyProhibition

Post World War I Politics and Foreign PolicyGovernment and Business in the 1920sCoolidge Prosperity The Election of 1928Independent Internationalism in the 1920sThe U.S. and Instability in the Western Hemisphere

The CrashThe End of the Boom The Great Depression

Chapter 23: A New Deal for Americans, 1931-1939

The New DealSpiral of Decline, 1931-1933From Prosperity to Global Depression Suffering in the LandThe Failure of the Old DealThe Coming of the New Deal

Reconstructing CapitalismThe Hundred DaysVoices of Protest

The Second New DealSocial SecurityLabor ActivismThe 1936 Election

Society, Law, and Culture in the 1930sPopular EntertainmentWomen and the New Deal European Ethnics and the New Deal A New Deal for Blacks Hispanics and the New DealThe Indian New DealNature's New Deal

The Twilight of ReformThe New Deal and Judicial Change Recession Political Setbacks

Chapter 24: Arsenal of Democracy: The World at War, 1931-1945

The Long FuseIsolationist ImpulseDisengagement from EuropeDisengagement in AsiaAppeasementAmerica at the Brink of War, 1939-1941Day of Infamy